Hey Everyone,

In this episode I was joined by Francesco Tisiot who is a Developer Advocate @Aiven. He has shared some interesting insights into how you can build robust data platforms. The approach we have discussed is also described here: https://aiven.io/blog/a-soft-methodology-to-define-robust-data-platforms

References:   

SOFT : https://aiven.io/blog/a-soft-methodology-to-define-robust-data-platforms

Aiven: https://aiven.io/Francesco 

Tisiot https://twitter.com/FTisiot and https://www.linkedin.com/in/francescotisiot/

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Hey Everyone,  

In this episode I and Matthias talk about KsqlDb. We have covered the topic in great depth talking about its history, architecture, different concepts, use cases, limitations, comparison to Kafka Streams and so on.

References: 

ksqlDB - https://ksqldb.io/

exactly once semantics podcast: https://youtu.be/twgbAL_EaQw

Matthias Sax: https://twitter.com/MatthiasJSax and https://www.linkedin.com/in/mjsax/ 

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Hey Everyone, 

In this episode I have Denis Magda from YugabyteDb with me.

We have explained how to build Geo-Distributed Applications in depth.  

I am sure this will help you make your applications more scalable, highly resilient, compliant and highly performant. If you liked the video please subscribe to the channel and give me a like.  

Further reading: 

https://www.yugabyte.com/blog/what-is... 

https://cloud.google.com/load-balancing

AWS outage: https://aws.amazon.com/message/41926/

 Connect with Denis: https://www.linkedin.com/in/dmagda/ and https://twitter.com/denismagda 

Connect with me: https://www.linkedin.com/in/kaivalya-... 

Cheers, The GeekNarrator

Hey Everyone,

In this episode Gunnar Morling, who is the former project lead for Debezium and has recently started working for Decodable, has joined us to talk everything about Change Data Capture with Debezium.

We discussed basic and advance topics and features of Debezium. If you are doing dual writes, Debezium could be a great tool for you. 

I hope you like the episode.

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The GeekNarrator

Hey Everyone,

In this episode I am joined by Richard Startin who works with DataDog on Java profiling. Richard has an amazing experience with profiling and benchmarking Java applications and he has explained us what profiling means, how one can get started, different concepts in the world of profiling, tools available, limitations and the future of profiling.

I hope you like the episode.

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The GeekNarrator

Hey Everyone,

In this episode I am joined by Matthias Sax, who works with Confluent to build the amazing world of Kafka.

We have discussed in real depths of Kafka Streams and how Exactly once semantics is implemented.

This episode will give you all the details you need to understand how beautifully Kafka imeplements EOS.

I hope you like the episode.

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The GeekNarrator

Hey Everyone,

In this episode Alex Debrie joined us to dive deep into the world of one of the most popular database, i.e. AWS DynamoDB.

This is a true masterclass where we go deep into different concepts, architecture and design choices of DynamoDB. We talked about CAP and PACELC, dynamo streams and many other advanced topics as well.

I hope you like this masterclass.

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The GeekNarrator

Hey Everyone,

In this episode Paul Christmann has joined us to demystify the world of Non Functional Requirements.

We started with very basics and discussed on top of it, about how one can approach defining Non Functional requirements for a system.

I hope you like the discussion.

Cheers,

The GeekNarrator

Hey Everyone,

In this episode I invited Arpit Bhayani (#asliengineering) to talk about the famous Bitcoin whitepaper.

We have discussed in depth the architecture, design choices, challenges and suggested solutions.

I hope you like the episode.

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The GeekNarrator

Hey Everyone,

This is the part2 of our episode with Franck Pachot.

In this episode I talk to Franck Pachot from YugabyteDB who has vast experience in the world of Databases.

We have talked about how modern databases work internally. BTrees, LSM trees and various design choices.

Cheers,

The GeekNarrator